use as few bathroom products as i can...

turtleneck

I am a 30 something bloke and try to live minimal and spend as little as possible. I am writing this regarding bathroom products.

I currently use:

-toothbrush
-toothpaste
-hair/body shower gel in one
-deodorant/body spray
-contact lenses
-eyebrow/nose trimmer
-mach 3 razor

That's all I use at the moment but I have loads of other products which have been bought for me the last few xmas's such as:

-face wash
-face scrub
-face super charge
-face body moisturizer
-after shave
-shaving foam/gel

I am considering wearing glasses rather than contacts next time I go to the optician as I pay about £25 a month for dailies at tesco.

Are there any other products I can do without and what can I do with the products I do not use?

sunfield91

Donating shaving foam or even aftershave to a hostel for homeless men? I am sure it would be appreciated

McKneff

~Anything you don't use, would be greatly appreciated by someone living in a homeless centre who has to live without such luxuries.....until someone gives them some.

theoretica

Try the face wash and scrub instead of body shower gel to use them up - it is all skin to wash.

ElusiveLucy

Don't you need the shaving gel to use wth the razor?

Ben84

You probably don't need the deodorant. It's a largely pointless thing really. I briefly tried deodorant when I discovered that most people other than me use it, and I found it makes absolutely no difference, so I went back to not using it.

theoretica

Ben84 wrote: »

You probably don't need the deodorant. It's a largely pointless thing really. I briefly tried deodorant when I discovered that most people other than me use it, and I found it makes absolutely no difference, so I went back to not using it.

Apparently it is genetic - about 1 person in 50 in the UK has no need for deodorant (and also produce a different texture of earwax). The proportions are different in different genetic groups - in Asia it is uncommon to need it.

Ben84

theoretica wrote: »

Apparently it is genetic - about 1 person in 50 in the UK has no need for deodorant (and also produce a different texture of earwax). The proportions are different in different genetic groups - in Asia it is uncommon to need it.

I'm actually not one of these people (I've had my genome mapped).

I think the idea we naturally smell bad is an advertising invention. Most of us didn't wear deodorant as children, and we didn't stink then, so why believe we would now?

McKneff

Of course we didn't stink when we were children, its when you get to adolesenct that your body changes and you do need deodorant.


The person to ask if you smell is your mother, she will tell you.



Most people do need deodorant, god ive come across some stinkers in me life. lazy twots,
If you don't want to use deodoranct then wash more regularly, like at least twice a day under your armpits.


You certainly don't need all this face wash stuff/shower gel. Good old bars of soap last 3 times as long.

turtleneck

I am not sure about deodorant, I sometimes notice the armpits in my clothes smell slightly after a day or two if I don't wear it.

I have heard it's a lot down to what you eat.

As for the face scrubs etc I just don't like the idea of putting stuff on my skin. I feel like the body has it's own cleaning process and a light wash with shower gel once a day is more than enough.

I find with shaving I don't need any foam or gel, I can shave ok with just a razor as long as I warm up the skin and razor with warm water first.

Ben84

McKneff wrote: »

If you don't want to use deodoranct then wash more regularly, like at least twice a day under your armpits.

I've never needed this. One bath a day with proper bar soap and I smell nice all the time. A full 24 hours after the last bath and I still just smell faintly of soap. I'm sure anyone else would too. It's takes more than a day, in fact several days to smell bad. So, smelly people aren't in my experience skipping deodorant, they're skipping bathing and/or clothes washing, often for longer periods of time than you'd like to know about! Deodorant probably wouldn't even help these people.